Expiring Mail
⇧⌘EGive a message a lifetime, from ten minutes to a year. Train tickets, delivery notices and sign-in codes archive themselves when they stop mattering. Set it once and every similar message follows.
Mail for macOS · free and open source
Mail that tidies up after itself.
Winfield lets receipts and newsletters expire on a timer, asks before strangers reach your inbox, and keeps every message on your Mac.
For macOS 14 Sonoma and later
Winfield runs on a Mac. Open this page there to join the beta.
- Works with
- Gmail
- Outlook and Hotmail
- iCloud
- Fastmail
- Proton Mail Bridge
- any IMAP server
Four habits your inbox will pick up.
The Screener
⌘YMail from someone new arrives tagged New sender. Let them in, give everything they send an expiry, or screen them out. Nothing is held back while you decide.
One-click unsubscribe
Leave a mailing list without visiting a web page. Winfield only unsubscribes for you when the sender is verified, and tells you if they keep writing afterwards.
Trackers blocked
Tracking pixels never load, so senders can't tell when you opened their mail. Phishing warnings flag links that pretend to go somewhere they don't.
A closer look.
When nothing is open
What needs you today
Close a message and the reading pane greets you with the day's to-do list: new senders waiting for an answer, mail that expires today with a Keep button beside it, snoozed mail coming back, and replies you're still waiting on.
Pick an account at the foot of the sidebar and the list shows just that account, in its own colour. A section with nothing in it shows a short guide instead.
Expiring Mail
See what's about to go
The Expiring view counts down every message with a timer, soonest first. Anything that still matters is one Keep away from staying put. Everything else archives itself, or goes to the Bin if you'd rather.
The Screener
Strangers wait at the door
Everyone writing to you for the first time is gathered in New Senders. Read what they sent, then let them in, put a timer on everything they send, or screen them out for good.
Also in Winfield
Finding mail
- Search
- Type plain words or use filters, with suggestions as you type. Pin the searches you run often.
- Find Mail Like This
- Right-click a message to find more from that sender, domain or mailing list.
- Spotlight
- Find a message from anywhere on your Mac.
Staying on top
- Snooze
- Hide a message until the time you pick.
- Reply reminders
- A nudge when someone hasn't answered you.
- Send later
- Schedule a message, or take it back in the seconds after you press Send.
Doing the chores
- Rules
- File, archive or expire mail as it arrives, and undo anything a rule did.
- Calendar invitations
- Accept, decline or add to your calendar from the message itself.
- Working offline
- Archive and file on a train. Changes are sent when you're back online.
Making it yours
- Layouts
- Five list layouts, from roomy cards grouped by day to one line per message.
- Themes
- Seven colour themes for the sidebar, each with a light and a dark look.
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Set your own keys, or switch on Gmail's.
Your mail stays on your Mac.
Winfield connects straight from your Mac to your email provider. We don't run a mail server, we never see your email, and there's no tracking in the app. Anonymous usage stats are sent only if you switch them on, and never include anything from your mail.
If you add a Gmail account, Winfield uses Google's permission only to show, search, organise and send your own mail on your Mac. Gmail data is never sent to us, sold, or used for advertising.
- Passwords and sign-ins live in the macOS Keychain.
- Search, rules and expiry all run on your Mac.
- Feedback reports show you exactly what they contain before they're sent.
- Usage stats are off unless you turn them on: daily counts with no ID, and you can see every report in Help › Privacy.
- The code is open source, so anyone can check all of this.
Try the beta
Winfield is in public beta through Apple's TestFlight. Install TestFlight on your Mac, open the link, and you'll get each new build automatically.
Free, open source, and paid for by tips
Winfield costs nothing, with no ads and no subscription. Its source code is published on GitHub under the MIT licence from version 1.0. If it saves you time, leave a tip in the app or sponsor it on GitHub.
Help
Known issues
What we already know about in the current beta, and any workarounds. Read the list
Send feedback
In Winfield, choose Help › Send Feedback. You see everything in the report before it goes.
Contact us
Email support@winfieldmail.com and a person will reply.